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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php74 (SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159170

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1 advisory.

 - In PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.28, 8.0.x below 8.0.16, and 8.1.x below 8.1.3, when using filter functions with FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT filter and min/max limits, if the filter fails, there is a possibility to trigger use of allocated memory after free, which can result it crashes, and potentially in overwrite of other memory chunks and RCE. This issue affects: code that uses FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT with min/max limits.
 (CVE-2021-21708)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1196252

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21708

http://www.nessus.org/u?83f58e3c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159170

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0654-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2022

Updated: 7/13/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sqlite, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dom

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21708

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1